My Friend Lisa

Our Folk Rock Duo is now a Folk Rock Quartet

myfriendlisa — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:30:32 +0000

We had mentioned this on twitter but we have been so busy I forgot to mention it on the blog. My Friend Lisa is no longer just a duo! We have welcomed Renee (keys) & Lani (violin) into the fold!! We are still finding our footing with all this but have a listen to our off the floor cuts from last nights studio kitchen rehearsal.

Our favourite song ‘London’
My Friend Lisa – Dec.14.2011 – London

And our complete failure at playing Smashing Pumpkins Disarm.
My Friend Lisa – Dec.14.2011 – Disarm
I personally blame the kettle boiling over at that exact moment.

Not perfect but we have only played together a couple of times so I figure we are on the way to AWESOME!!

My Friend Lisa played the Wicklow Pub!

myfriendlisa — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:18:51 +0000

…and we happened to have a camera running for all those folks in Calgary that couldn’t join us! (the camera stopped for a quick sec during Kids sorry) shout out to Darren for running the camera and such. We also apologize for the evil demon like red glow that bathes everything on stage. It was the venues mood lighting.

We had a ROCK OFF!!

myfriendlisa — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:59:19 +0000

While rehearsing at the shared jam space we had an unofficial rock off with the really loud metal band in the room next door! They may have won by shear volume, but we still kicked some ass!! Folk/rock styles!

Slow springs but fresh perspectives

myfriendlisa — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:00:31 +0000

Well it has been a super busy year thus far, so busy in fact that we here at My Friend Lisa have been on a bit of a break to deal with all the crazy busy! However fear not the creative wheels are a spinning once again! In fact this past week found us hard at work, re-imaging one of our first long forgotten songs, and working our newest My Friend Lisa Member into our song ‘London’. Everyone meet ‘Champ’ our honest to goodness vintage Ace Tone Drum Machine! (last photo) Once we have some of these re-works all worked out. There should hopefully be some studio time booked for us in this fall.

Our First Online show…

myfriendlisa — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:38:50 +0000

…..was a ummm… Success?? I guess!

Here is the show unedited as it streamed complete with all our mistakes, false starts, and failed encores The streaming technology how ever was a complete success. This Livestream is a far superior solution as compared to our ustream of old. Anyway Check it out…

My Friend Lisa is Live @ the Loft!

myfriendlisa — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:52:20 +0000

Yes you heard us right! This Wednesday Feb 9th at 7pm tune in to our Livestream channel to see My Friend Lisa Preform Live for you the people of the interwebs!

Now I know that we have broadcast our jams & the like before, but this is different! This is on a new platform. This will be much fancier then before. This is a show! A show for you!! IT WILL BE AWESOME!! You NEED to watch! !
Come give us a listen, a look, stay and chat with other folks! at http://www.myfriendlisa.com/live-streaming/

Getting Back Into The Swing Of Things

myfriendlisa — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:40:10 +0000

So our Summer has been a particularly busy one. However busy not in the musical sense but instead busy in the life & stuff sense. Which is to say sadly that there has not been a great deal of progress on the My Friend Lisa front these past few months. That is all however beginning to change as the summers craziness fades into fall we are starting to work on some new songs, rework older work, as well as actively starting to record some tracks for the First My Friend Lisa LP.

We have finally set ourselves up a permanent work space with all our gear set up and ready to record at a moments notice so there doesn’t need to be crazy marathon recording days, we can instead lay down tracks when we are feeling good with out spending time setting all the gear up. We should have a tour to come in the distant future. Tonight, at the end of our jam, we recorded a really quick cut to test out our new setup.

My Friend Lisa – Grey

Photos From Our First Show EVAH!

myfriendlisa — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:44:08 +0000

Last night we played our first ‘real’ show EVAH!! and here are some photos!

We also quickly Recored the show with the crappiest camera ever.

Here are some archived snippits of video that were streamed up to Ustream..

A small warning however, these clips where recorded and streamed with an iPhone so the audio/video quality are not the best

Our first ever real show!!

myfriendlisa — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:32:05 +0000

We are playing a show!!!!
Yup you heard right, we are playing our very first show that isn’t in my living room. October 2nd at the Dulcinea Cafe we will be the opening act for our good friend Sarah Sim who is raising money for her trek to build homes in Guatemala

My Friend Lisa impromptu open mic at El Barrio restaurant

myfriendlisa — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:36:42 +0000

It was sort of by accident really. We wern’t meaning to head out to an open mic. Some of us just wanted tacos. Being without a guitar I even had to borrow one, this should tell you how much we weren’t planning this. With the power of a high def cameras in our pockets (IE: the iPhone 4) we were able to capture some truly subpar video/audio of this accidental event.